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AArete Celebrates Four Consecutive Years Among Forbes’ World’s Best Management Consulting Firms’
CHICAGO, August 27, 2025 – AArete, a leading global management and technology consulting firm, is proud to announce that Forbes has named the company among the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2025. AArete earned this recognition for its services, experience and expertise in the categories of Digital Transformation, Data Analytics, and Healthcare and Lifesciences.
AArete Data Science VP Priya Iragavarapu to ShareAI Innovations for Health Plans at AWS re:Invent
CHICAGO, November 26, 2025 – AArete, a leading provider of profitability improvement, digital transformation and strategic advisory services to healthcare payers as well as financial services clients, announced that Priya Iragavarapu, vice president of data science and AI, will be a presenter at the upcoming AWS re:Invent conference, to be held in Las Vegas from Dec. 1-5.
Navigating IT Vendor Consolidation Post-Merger: Key Considerations for IT & Procurement Leaders
Mergers and acquisitions promise efficiency gains and cost synergies, but those gains hinge on how effectively IT and procurement teams consolidate their vendors. Every merger inherits overlapping contracts, conflicting license models, and divergent pricing structures. Handled poorly, costs rise and compliance risks multiply. Handled strategically, consolidation becomes a catalyst: an opportunity to modernize infrastructure, strengthen vendor leverage, and align IT capabilities with the new organization’s growth agenda. Here are ways to best integrate IT vendors in a post-merger environment — not as an afterthought, but as a critical driver of long-term value.
Navigating H-1B Volatility: Is it Time to Build a More Resilient Workforce Strategy?
The H-1B visa program has helped U.S. companies attract the best and brightest foreign talent for decades. It’s responsible in part for fueling unprecedented tech sector growth and propelling the AI boom. Recently, the Trump Administration has proposed significant changes to the program, including levying an additional $100,000 one-time fee for each new H-1B visa application. As the new rules work their way through legal challenges, business leaders are scrambling to determine the potential risks and opportunities.

